Bela, the Nigerian dwarf goat, makes
an emergency visit to the clinic following a traumatic incident.
Bella. Bella.
Hello. Hello.
I understand we have some rough go-ins here.
What happened exactly?
We have a farm and we have Nigerian dwarf goats.
And my husband let them out Sunday morning at 830.
Came back about 3:00.
To dogs attacking them. Oh man.
And um
Its all right Its all right
I’m sorry. It's okay.
These babies didn't deserve this.
They killed three of them.
Oh, man.
And it was heartbreaking.
We came back from church, and the dogs are trying to drag
one of the deceased goats that they had already killed away.
And we couldn't get out of the car fast enough.
And those poor babies didn't deserve that.
They're terrified.
And it was just it was awful.
How old is this baby? She turned a year old in Feburary.
okay
she looks a little wild to me.
Thats normal, thats abnormal? That’s abnormal.
She's definitely bloated. The swelling happened overnight.
She was a little bit swollen initially, but not like this.
All right.
We're going to try to get her out of here.
Good girl.
Have you eaten drink?
She's not eaten today at all.
Let me start on this front left shoulder.
This leg right here had puncture wounds. Front left.
Okay.
Yeah we've got a wound up here, so we'll get that shave even clean up.
We also have air here.
Come out you is slightly kind of feel
and mash real gently and it feels like some little bubbles like.
Oh, yeah. I feel it.
So what I want to do initially here is I want to take some x rays.
Okay. Okay.
Look at what extent of this is. I’m very concerned about this goat.
There's definitely something strange going on here.
Oh, that's crazy.
Just like, bouncing back, like a literal drum.
We're going to take some X-ray and just see if we can gauge what it is
so we determine what we need to do to try to help resolve this.
Doc. What is that?
Normally when you think of bloating, you think of the gastrointestinal tract,
but it in this case those dog had
basically air and it's generalized, which means that it's all over the body.
So all that above the muscle is all of this.
Here we're dealing with subcutaneous emphysema.
Oh, my gosh.
Significant amount. More than I ever seen.
See if we can get some blood for CBC.
First thing we're trying to do is try to take a needle
just to see if I can get anything out.
Then we may have to make some strategic cuts at different places. Oh.
Subcutaneous emphysema can come from trauma of some type of injury,
or it can come from infection.
But in Bella's case, because of the puncture wounds,
air was allowed to get in there.
We're going to run blood to see if Bella has any type of infection.
But we know we need to do whatever
we can to relieve some of this air under the skin.
So what I want to do is take a 20 gauge needle and I want to actually stick it
between the muscle and the skin layer where the air is and my hope
is it stays in the place just like sticking a needle in a balloon.
He about to flight. put a needle in her belly and deflate the balloon, I guess.
Do you think this is going to work? I don't think going to be that simple.
If it is, I'm going to be happy, but I don't think it is.
Hope so. I guess pre he don. Pick a spot. we going right there.
But we ready?
I guess we gotta listen.
We listen for the hiss Are they going to smell? You ready?
Fingers crossed
You hear that? Really? No you didn't.
I did! You hear?
Oh, wow. I heard of that time.
Yes Jordan
Oh, it's working. Slowly. Good job guys.
We’re working
Push it this way.
You hear it right now? Yeah
Let me help you.
Lo and behold, I hear hissing, which is good news.
That means that this air is definitely escaping
through the needle that I inserted. Its okay. This is the coolest day ever. For you?
This is a cool day for her to we’re helping her.